Worth pointing out the irony in terms of self-organized criticality [0], which describes the activity of starlings flocking together in terms of dynamical systems and is also used in self-organized criticality control [1] which has been applied to power grids to prevent power outages (from cascades of load shedding).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality_con...